WiCC Student on News

September 29, 2016

A UW-Madison student is one of the college delegates from across the country to team up and submit questions for consideration for Monday’s first debate between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Education graduate student Jacquelyn Moss joined 150 delegates in California earlier this month to develop the questions as part of a non-profit program called College Debate ’16.

Moss hopes Clinton and Trump will tackle this question in particular:  What is your plan for aiding the employment of skilled refugees and immigrants in their respective fields?

“I want them to be talking about no just, ‘We’ll give them jobs,’ no, I really want you to tell me, how are you going to help them,”  Moss says.  “Whether that be providing recertification processes, or providing opportunities for professional development.”

Moss says millenials make up a significant, potential voting bloc.  She says the delegation’s work in submitting questions is part of a broader effort to increase the engagement of young adults in the presidential campaign.

Moss and others have used Twitter and other social media platforms to lobby debate moderator Lester Holt to consider their debate questions.  In addition to immigration, the questions touch on the economy, education, foreign policy and civil rights.

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